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on chemical processes as well, like: how fast is HCN absorbed in mortar
converted into insoluble iron cyanides no longer detectable with the
one, but readily detectable with the other method? If we hold the results
of my test gassings against those conducted by the Poles, then it appears
that most of the absorbed cyanide present in gassed mortar samples is
turned into long-term stable iron cyanides rather quickly. But since the
conditions of our experiments were very different, such a conclusion
would be premature. The Poles had the chance to find out. I had asked
them to redo their tests with the standard method, but they did not react
to that suggestion.
Subsequently, if Dr. Green were honest, he should say that the
Polish scientists neither tried to understand what they claimed not to
have understood, nor discussed the attempts to understand as made by
others, which were known to them. No matter which results the Polish
scientists produced and what their scientific opinion might have been:
their behavior is extremely unscientific, as the most important task of
a scientist is to try to understand what has not been understood so
far, and to discuss the attempts of others to make it understandable.
The Polish scientists did just the opposite: they decided to ignore
and exclude what they did not understand. Finally, in their article as
well as in a letter to me, the Polish scientists themselves stated that the
purpose of their paper was to refute the “Holocaust Deniers” and to
prevent Hitler and National Socialism from being whitewashed, i.e.,
their purpose was not to find out the truth! Thus, by their own confession,
they used unscientific methods in order to produce desired results
for the purpose of achieving certain political goals.
Let me quote Prof. A.R. Butz in this connection, who stated another
appropriate metaphor to emphasize the degree of intellectual dishonesty
revealed by Markiewicz and his colleagues: 541
“The argument [of Markiewicz et al. for excluding Iron Blue from their
analyses], to the extent that it was intelligible enough to be summarized at
all, was that they did not understand how the iron-cyanide compounds got
to be there, so they decided to ignore them in reaching their conclusions. I
don’t understand how the moon got there, so I will ignore all effects associated
with it, such as tides. I hope I don’t drown.”
And the amazing thing about Dr. Green is that he – and with him
Prof. van Pelt, who relies on Green 74 – does not only defend Prof. Markiewicz’s
behavior in every regard, but he attacks me for my critique
against the Polish scientists, while omitting all the reasons I gave for
541 Arthur R. Butz, “Historical Past vs. Political Present,” JHR, 19(6) (2000), pp. 12ff.